Zainab Amadahy will draw on her experience as a community artist, singer/songwriter and author as she discusses art as a mechanism of surviving and thriving.

Bonita Lawrence will focus on powwow culture and women's autonomous voices--as a means of both addressing the effects of Canadian colonialism on some aspects of Indigenous cultural expression, and women's resistance to it.

Bonita Lawrence (Mi’kmaw) is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences at Atkinson at York University, where she teaches Indigenous Studies. Her research and publications have focused primarily on urban, non-status and Metis identities, federally unrecognized Aboriginal communities, and Indigenous justice. More information on Bonita’s research and work can be found on her faculty page.

Zainab Amadahy is an author, researcher and educator/trainer. Her writings are about decolonization, indigeneity and social justice. Through her writings, she strives to challenge oppressive ideas and envision a world with values that affirm and nurture our connectivity on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. She also facilitates workshops that help community/social workers, students and activists work for social justice in ways that make self and group-care sustainable while optimizing success. More information about Zainab can be found on herwebsite.

OPIRG Carleton and GRIPO are hosting an all day workshop, consisting of anti-oppression 101 training and decolonization for all our volunteers and staff. OPIRG Carleton requires that all our working groups operate under an anti oppressional and consensus based framework, and thus we encourage all our volunteers to attend this training, regardless if it's for the first time or as a refresher! Lunch will also be provided.

Kitiganensag GSA-Carleton Community Garden
needs your support! The Carleton administration decides to build a
privately operated residence on top of our community garden after its
successful first growing season. Please stay tuned for updates and check
out the Garden's news on the GSA facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/carletongsa?ref=br_tf

Sunny Drake in Carleton November 14th & 15th

This event is sponsored by OPIRG-Carleton, CUSA Gender
and Sexuality Resource Centre, Department of Anthropology and
Sociology, and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and Sexuality
Studies Carleton U.

There are two events here: one on November 14th and one on November 15th! Both are wheelchair accessible!

November 14th @ 8pm Residence Commons 270- FREE

Performance of Transgendered Seeking...

Description of this performance:

Jimmy is trying to quit romance, cold turkey. An exposing, funny
and tender look at queer relationships including run-ins with the
polyamory police, online dating mishaps, and how relationship scripts
and bigger political systems like policing and prisons affect our
relationships. Transgender Seeking… includes clever unconventional use
of multimedia. Jimmy is trying to quit romance, cold turkey, so he’s
joined your Romance-aholics Anonymous group. Since the break-up, he’s
been trying to prove that he’s “Great! Fine! Never been better!” His
secret comforts include watching cheesy old black and white romance
films – but don’t tell his radical friends… An exposing, funny and
tender look at queer relationships, the bold visions we have and the
often hilarious struggles in living up to them. Run-ins with the
polyamory police about jeolousy. Online dating mishaps. How relationship
scripts and bigger political systems like policing and prisons affect
our relationships. Transgender Seeking… includes clever unconventional
use of multimedia projections.

November 15th @ 1pm Residence Commons 208- FREE

Trans Anti-Oppression 101

An introductory workshop about trans* identities, strengths, challenges, and allyship.

Performance & theatre // 36 years in the making, queer &
trans theatre maker & educator Sunny Drake is a complex piece of
art. He lives his creative escapades, is usually in the middle of an art
in life experiment.

Sunny is largely self-taught and has created his own unique style
of multi-genre theatre, which he has been evolving since he was a
teenage girl. Sunny has performed in theatres, festivals, living-rooms,
streets, work places, deserts, schools, universities, basements,
backyards & conferences in Australia, the USA & Canada. Sunny
has performed in numerous festivals including the San Francisco
International Arts
Festival (2010), the USA National Queer Arts Festival
(2008/10/12), NACL Festival (New York 2010), Mardi Gras (Sydney
2009/10), Gasworks Arts Park (Melbourne 2009/10),
Brisbane Festival’s UNDER THE RADAR (2009), Feast (Adelaide 2009/10), Metro Arts Independents (2012),
Pride Toronto (2013) and SummerWorks (2013).

Sunny has facilitated over 280
workshops in the past 15 years including LGBTIQ training, creative
workshops, practical political workshops, community engagement,
professional development for project workers & artists. Participants
have included people of diverse age, gender, cultural, sexuality,
disability and class backgrounds; educational institutions
(universities, high schools…), artists, young people, collectives,
service providers & government in both urban & rural contexts.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/531901880229338/

Carleton Food Collective General Meeting

Wednesday November 6
6:00pm
OPIRG-Carleton Office (326 Uni Centre)

The Collective, in the early days of its
return, is especially in need of volunteer support to re-establish our
presence on campus. We would like to expand our volunteer base in order
to gather the many creative ideas we all posses and implement these
ideas in a way that does not weigh too heavily on any of us.

We would like to
call out to the general membership to discuss the importance of
volunteers and the energy they can contribute to the Collective. The
Collective is looking for two or three new board members. We are all
volunteers but 'Directors' are those who contribute extra energy and can
reliably carry out some of the Collective's core operations until the
end of the academic year (May 2014). We would also like to identify
those who would simply like to help cook and serve in our future
servings. The date of the General Meeting will be on November 6th, at
6:00pm in the OPIRG Office (326 University Centre). We seek to meet
those who are interested in helping out with the many functions of the
Collective. Whether you want to engage in food-activism, help create a
more sustainable campus, or just enjoy cooking and serving food for the
people, we would love to welcome you to the team.

Agenda The agenda of the General Meeting will entail:

- report of expenses and revenue
- updates on the issue of space
- election of new Directors
- relations with CUSA and the GSA- discussion on future operations

As a grassroots publication rooted in social movements, Briarpatch Magazine is an open platform for activists and organizers of all stripes to connect with one another and reach a national readership. Briarpatch is
seeking submissions for our March/April 2014 issue. We are
looking for feature articles, provocative essays, investigative
reportage, interviews, profiles, reviews, humour, and photography rooted
in an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist analysis. If you’ve got a story
in mind, we want to hear your pitch!

Queries are due November 5, 2013. If your query is
accepted, first drafts will be due by December 5. Your query should
outline what ground your contribution will cover, give an estimated word
count, and indicate your relevant experience or background in writing
about the issue. If you haven’t written for Briarpatch before, please
provide a brief writing sample. Please review our submission guidelines
here: http://briarpatchmagazine.com/announcements/view/call-for-submissions8 before sending your query to editor AT briarpatchmagazine DOT com.

This participatory, multimedia workshop will
shed light on the intricate system we call the Prison Industrial Complex
(PIC). Using RED LIPS [cages for Black girls] as a point to start from,
we will discuss how this system disproportionately effects Racialized,
Queer/Trans bodies. Facilitated by kyisha williams. For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/235618983268035/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Solidarity Rally For the Tsilhqot'in Nation at the Supreme CourtMiningWatch Canada

Thursday November 7th
12:30 pm
Supreme Court of Canada

Join the Tsilhqot'in delegation that have traveled
across Turtle Island to be in the Supreme Court for the hearing of their
landmark title case. The case - now going on 2 decades stands to be the
first to concretely establish aboriginal title to land without the
extinguishment of rights and title that has been demanded by Canada
through the modern treaty / land claim process.

It's a grueling day so let's give them a strong show of support and
fill the delegation and legal team with good positive energy for a successful outcome.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO BRING DRUMS AND WEAR REGALIA

We will also have a smaller ceremony to start the day if you are
interested - meet us at the Court at 7:45 am. More information contact:
Ramsey Hart ramsey@miningwatch.ca / 613-298-4745 (mobile)

In this interactive workshop, Lena Carla Palacios will
cover the history, theories, principles, and phases of transformative
justice. Together, we will develop our own community accountability
strategies and see how to apply them to a series of challenging
scenarios depicting everyday forms of interpersonal, sexual, state, and
structural violence.To conclude, we will debrief with a creative
response activity to reflection on transformative justice in our own
lives.

Facilitator:
Lena Carla Palacios is a PhD Candidate (Education and Communication
Studies) at McGill University. She is an active member and a lead
project coordinator of Life after Life, a Montreal-based collective
dedicated to prison abolition and the de-criminalization of formerly
incarcerated girls, women, and queer and transgender people. Her
research focuses on transnational feminist prison studies, prison
education, critical race feminism, restorative and transformative
justice, media justice, as well as transnational youth- and student-led
social movements. Lena is also a filmmaker and is currently working on a
short documentary about Indigenous women who are "doing time on the
outside" with a life sentence. For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/546561955422225/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=1

Turning Point for Indigenous Land Rights: Tsilhqot'in Title and the Supreme Court- PUBLIC FORUM

For the first time in almost a decade, the Supreme Court of Canada
is considering the vital question of Indigenous peoples' right to own
and control their traditional lands and resources. The outcome of the
Tsilhqot'in title case could have far reaching implications in Canada,
and possibly around the world. This forum will examine the way Canadian
constitutional and international human rights law are converging in
this landmark case. Speakers include prominent lawyers from the case.

Sponsored by Amnesty International, Assembly of First Nations,
Canadian Friends Service Committee, Centre for Indigenous Rights, Centre
for International Policy Studies, Federation of Saskatchewan Indian
Nations, First Nations Summit, Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou
Istchee), KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, Tsilhqot'in
Nation Government, Union of BC Indian Chiefs

A reception with light refreshments will follow at noon.

There is no charge for attendance. Donations will be accepted to
support the Tsilhqot’in Title Express. For more information, please
contact, Craig Benjamin, cbenjamin@amnesty.ca<mailto:cbenjamin@amnesty.ca>

Independent Jewish Voices - Ottawa has politely asked C.A. Paradis,
a high end kicthenware store, to remove SodaStream products from its
shelves. They've refused to stop carrying this brand that manufactures
on stolen Palestinian land. Join us for an information picket outside of
their store to inform shoppers to stop buying SodaStream!

Why Boycott SodaStream?

While SodaStream, a home water carbonation device, claims that it
is “Made in Israel”, its main factory is in the occupied West Bank
industrial zone of Mishor Edomim, in the settlement of Ma’ale
Adumim. Ma’ale Adumim is one of the largest of the illegal settlements
and, because it connects Jerusalem to the Jordan Valley, dividing the
Palestinian West Bank in two, is a major obstacle to any peace
agreement. SodaStream’s taxes go directly to supporting the
infrastructure of Ma’ale Adumim.

SodaStream’s operations exemplify the reality of Palestinian life
under occupation, with few employment opportunities. It takes advantage
of a virtually captive Palestinian workforce, paying them less than half
of the minimum wage and subjecting them to terrible working conditions.
Those who have disagreements are labelled “security risks”, making them
virtually unemployable.

Do not support Israeli Settlements:

Israel builds and subsidizes more illegal settlements (colonies)
every year. Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank provides
ultimate control over all of the territory, with illegal settlements,
illegal settler-only roads, the separation barrier, military zones,
roads, and bases. Israel’s illegal land and resource confiscation and
occupation has benefited illegal settlements and destroyed Palestinian
homes, farms, businesses, and lives. The Israeli military imposes
curfews, assassinates Palestinians, and invades communities at will,
abducting and imprisoning Palestinian civilians, including children.
There is frequent violence by settlers against Palestinians in nearby
communities, which is largely ignored by the complicit Israeli army.

This is one of our major fundraisers of the year! Over the past
fourteen years Odawa has raised over $250,000. All proceeds support
programming for Aboriginal youth, families, elders and community
healing.

This year’s proceeds will be going towards a vision to own a
structure that will house Makonsag Head Start programming as well as
Ottawa’s first Aboriginal High School and potentially other youth and
child programs. All art is donated and overhead costs are covered by
ticket sales as well by our main sponsor, Human Concern International
(HCI).
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/643842152316817/648078545226511/?notif_t=like

"Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic
discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based
practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights
movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor
exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized
empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of
border imperialism and decolonization. Drawing on the author’s
experiences in No One Is Illegal, this work offers relevant insights for
all social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the
barriers and borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce,
loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward
liberation. The author grounds the book in collective vision, with short
contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North
America."

Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular
educator rooted in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, Palestinian
liberation, anti-racist, feminist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist
movements and communities for over a decade.

"Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North
America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new move­ments. That
this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom
in this book is a tremendous gift to us all." —Naomi Klein, author of
The Shock Doctrine
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/405255972935213/

Disability Awareness Week is a week of fun and
educational events related to various aspects of disability. Our goal is
to raise awareness about inaccessibility and existing inaccessible
barriers that students at university face, especially those that
identify with having a disability. Examining and challenging the
existing societal views/values towards disability is a crucial step
towards raising awareness. This week is organized by the Centre for
Students with Disabilities within the SFUO. We are looking forward to collaborating with our partners for these events!

Monday November 18: DINNER IN THE DARK with the Sustainable Development Centre, featuring story teller Kim Kilpatrick
6:00pm-8:00pm in Desmarais room 12102

Participants will wear blindfolds while eating a delicious 3
course vegan meal and drink and listening to guest speakers and
storytellers. Please note that an individual’s experience of vision lose
cannot be understood by participating in this event.

What is Disability Justice? How is it different from Disability
Rights? What is ableism? How can we start integrating a disability
justice analysis into our work as activists and organizers? How is
disability and ableism connected to other forms of oppression? A
disability justice analysis deepens and strengthens all of our work for
social justice because ableism underlines whose bodies are considered
desirable or disposable. This talk will introduce the disability justice
framework and how it connects with different communities and movements.
Disability justice has the power to shift our work so we can fight for
liberation for all of us, not just some of us.

This workshop will address how transformative justice and
Community Accountability can help us re-imagine our responses to
violence. It will provide a beginning understanding of transformative
justice and Community Accountability work, what it is and how it works
to respond to and ultimately end violence. We will also address the
complexities and critiques of current responses to violence. There will
be teaching, discussion and small group work. In addition to learning
about transformative justice, we will use media, video and audio
This workshop will be in English only.https://www.facebook.com/events/628442660531495/?ref_dashboard_filter=calendar

Wednesday November 20th: TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE with the SFUO Pride Centre
UCU Agora stage (University Centre) in the afternoon

On April 3rd and 4th, 2013, Carleton undergraduate students voted on a referendum question to abolish the levy for OPIRG-Carleton.
OPIRG-Carleton is thrilled to announce that 71 per cent of voters cast their ballots against the elimination of the levy. This victory has a much more profound significance, however, than maintaining a $3.42 per semester levy. It is a vote that represents a clear and cohesive vision for our campus, one where progressive politics can thrive. It is a vote that decisively speaks to students’ progressive values to support social justice and important environmental initiatives on campus and in the community. This is not just a victory for OPIRG-Carleton, but a victory for Carleton students and the Ottawa region. It also marks a victory for PIRGs across the country that have witnessed a coordinated and concerted attack from the conservative movement in Canada. We see this victory as indication that such attacks do not align with the values of the common student.

Thank you to the flood of volunteers who helped fight against the attack on OPIRG and campaigned inspirationally for each and every vote. Thanks to the many student groups and clubs that took the time to not only learn more about OPIRG, but put their full support behind this important organization on campus. To the conservatives that brought this attack forward in the first place, thank you for inadvertently raising the visibility of OPIRG-Carleton. Because of this campaign, so many more people are taking an interest and becoming active in the organization and its working groups.

We celebrate this strong confirmation of students’ commitment to social and environmental justice. OPIRG-Carleton is proud of its 33-year history and is looking forward to a new generation of students who will continue working on important initiatives and campaigns for the next 33 years and undoubtedly beyond.

The deadline to submit your nomination form for the Board of Directors is Tuesday, April 2nd, one week before OPIRG-Carleton's Annual General Meeting.Stop by the office (UC 326) for more information and to pick up a Nomination Package.

Israeli Apartheid Week 2013 - Ottawa

TUESDAY MARCH 5 - INDIGENOUS AND PALESTINIAN WOMEN STRUGGLES UNDER APARTHEIDUniversity Center Room 182, Carleton University7pm
Panel Discussion featuring Bridget Tolley from Families of Sisters in Spirit, and Yafa Jarrar, a Palestinian woman and member of Students Against Israeli Apartheid, discussion missing and murdered aboriginal women and Palestinian women prisoners, and the struggles of women living under oppression, occupation, and apartheid.
http://www.facebook.com/events/489508697776497/?ref=ts&fref=ts

TWO STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN CANADA AND PALESTINIANS LIVING INSIDE ISRAELMarion Auditorium in Ottawa U
8pm-10pm
Featuring Peter Larson and Greg Dreaver.
This panel discussion, featuring two knowledgeable community members, will examine the parallels between Palestinians' and Canadian First Nations' struggles to be fully participating members of the "democratic" regimes in which they live.
https://www.facebook.com/events/242427789227873/?ref=25

WEDNESDAY MARCH 6 -

QUEERING APARTHEIDArts Building 257 at Ottawa University
5:30pm-7pm
Queering Apartheid: From South Africa to Israel/Palestine: This talk and slide presentation links the queer struggle against South African apartheid and in support of Black gay activist Simon Nkoli to the current queer struggles against pink-washing and Israeli Apartheid in the occupation and colonization of Palestine
Featuring Gary Kinsman, a long-time queer liberation, anti-poverty and anti-capitalist activist who is currently a member of the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty, and Palestine Solidarity Working Group. He also teaches sociology at Laurentian University.
http://www.facebook.com/events/198746646916426/?ref=ts&fref=ts

THURSDAY MARCH 7

Cultural Boycott Panel featuring REMI KANAZI and ANGELA from the THREE LITTLE BIRDSCarleton University Loeb C164
7pm
Cultural boycott?
What's it all about?
Why are artists around the world boycotting Israel?
Are Ottawa artists boycotting Israel too?
http://www.facebook.com/events/347067152077821/?ref=ts&fref=ts

An evening of music, poetry, and dance in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
Join us in celebrating the end of Israeli Apartheid Week 2013 and the launch of our Cultural Boycott Campaign.
Doors at 8:30PM, performances start at 9:00PM sharp, followed by an after-party with DJ PrufRock Shadowrunner!

OPIRG-Carleton's 3 bursaries due March 11, 2013

Terry Cottam Research Bursary

OPIRG-Carleton provides a $500 bursary annually to a Carleton graduate student whose research project falls within our mandate of working on environmental, economic, or social justice issues. Deadline to apply is March 11, 2013. If you have any questions about the mandate or work of OPIRG-Carleton, please visit our website at opirgcarleton.org or contact our office: 326 UniCentre Building / 613-520-2757. Bursary application:

Undergraduate Student Bursary

OPIRG-Carleton provides a $500 bursary annually to undergraduate students studying at Carleton University whose academic research or campus/community research project falls within our mandate of working on environmental, economic, or social justice issues. Deadline to apply is March 11, 2013. If you have any questions about the mandate or work of OPIRG-Carleton, please visit our website at opirgcarleton.org or contact our office: 326 University Centre Building / 613-520-2757. Bursary application:

International Student Bursary

OPIRG-Carleton provides a $500 bursary annually to international students studying at Carleton University whose academic research or campus/community research project falls within our mandate of working on environmental, economic, or social justice issues. Deadline to apply is March 11, 2013. If you have any questions about the mandate or work of OPIRG-Carleton, please visit our website at opirgcarleton.org or contact our office: 326 University Centre Building / 613-520-2757.

(OPIRG)-Carleton Board of Directors Nomination

OPIRG Board of Director Nomination Period will take place between March 6-19, 2013.Get involved with a student-directed organization that works towards social, economic, and environmental Justice.For nomination applications and more details on the roles and responsibilities of OPIRG's Board of Directors, visit: http://opirgcarleton.org/opirg-carleton-board-of-directors-nomination-package/

For our Letʼs Decolonize Campus! zine report, we encourage members of the Carleton community to submit writing, photos or artwork that reﬂects the diversity of their struggles and successes in making this campus theirs, and a better place for everyone. This zine is framed partly as a response to Carleton's Commission on Inter-Cultural, Inter-Religious and Inter-Racial Relations on Campus report. This report emerged as a clear condemnation of Palestine solidarity organizing on campus with only a token acknowledgement to the struggles Aboriginal students face in academic institutions and at Carleton speciﬁcally, as such, it denied the true experiences of the diverse student (and staff/faculty etc!) population on this campus and the intersectional nature of their struggles. This is why we are making space for them now ourselves. Through this zine project we aim to broaden our lens to look at issues of oppression in a more inter-locking and inter-sectional way. Through this, we'd like to identify where decolonizing approaches are needed and how we can move forward, for real and not for pretend!
Send submissions to: OPIRGCarleton.board@gmail.com

Get involved with a student-directed organization that works towards social, economic, and environmental justice.

The OPIRG Board of Directors is comprised of 5-9 individuals with 2/3 of the members being Carleton University students. Faculty, community members, and formers staff/interns/volunteers/researchers are also encouraged to apply.To qualify as a member of the Board, the nominee must be a member who is at least 18 or more years of age, in good standing of the Corporation, and is an active volunteer for OPIRG or a similar organization for at least eight months. OPIRG-Carleton works as a non-hierarchical organization and makes decisions by consensus.

The role of the OPIRG Board is to:

Support OPIRG’s projects and support the work of the Working Groups and Portfolio areas;

Be part of the planning, visioning, and setting of priorities for the organization;

Be responsible for the organization as defined by the Corporations Act, OPIRG bylaws and policies, and the Board Contract;

Be the employer as defined by the Collective Agreement with CUPE 1281;

Work collectively with the staff to oversee the work of the organization.

Board Members cannot receive any remuneration for their work with OPIRG.

Contact our office - 326 Unicentre - for more information and to pick up a Nomination Package